OREANDA-NEWS. February 16, 2012. MICEX Stock Exchange commenced trading in Russian Federation government bonds and eurobonds of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. 35 issues of Russian Federation government bonds and three issues of eurobonds of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation were added to the Quotation list A Level One.

Over the first two day of trading, the total number of trades in the government bonds executed by market participants exceeded 220 trades. Eight and 23 issues of the government bonds were involved in buy/sell transactions and repo trades respectively during the trading period on 13 and 14 February.  The total trading volume of the government bonds in Main trading mode amounted to RUB354 million, in the Negotiated trades mode – RUB96 million, repo trades volume reached RUB42,765 million.

The first trading results for the Russian Federation government bonds reflect market participants’ strong interest in a single organizer of trading for the corporate securities and government securities markets.